Introduction: Back pain and spinal deformity are common presentation in majority of senile osteoporoticvertebral compression fracture. Vertebroplasty provides relief with correction andleast period hospital stay.Material Method: Twenty patients underwent vertebroplasty clinical evaluation was doneby recording the VAS score done preoperatively after surgery.Result: Percutaneous 1 year followup.V...

SUMMARY Percutaneous vertebroplasty has been deferred due to potential complications from urinary tract infections (UTIs). Our aim was to help sort out the types of treatment needed for percutaneous vertebroplasty patients and the length delay for performing the procedure. We searched for information regarding the ramifications of infection from the literature and devised a plan of treatment fo...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty can be associated with significant radiation exposure to the operator. We compared the exposure levels to an operator performing vertebral fracture augmentation with vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty, to assess a cement injection and a monitoring technique designed to reduce this exposure. METHODS A neuroradiologist performed 189 consecutive ...

Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty have become common surgical techniques for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures. Vertebroplasty involves the percutaneous injection of bone cement into the cancellous bone of a vertebral body with the goals of pain alleviation and preventing further loss of vertebral body height. Kyphoplasty utilizes an inflatable balloon to create a cavity for the cem...

Our recent editorial in the Journal presents an accurate summary of our two randomised trials of vertebroplasty, which found no benefit of vertebroplasty over placebo. Participants in both trials are representative of patients seen in clinical practice and who would qualify for government-subsidised funding of vertebroplasty in Australia. Clinical experience and previous published literature ar...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Percutaneous vertebroplasty can aggravate spinal canal narrowing, especially in patients with preoperative retropulsion. The purpose of this study was to evaluate changes in spinal canal dimension during percutaneous vertebroplasty for osteoporotic fractures with retropulsion. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed all cases of osteoporotic vertebral fractures treated with v...

Vertebroplasty, a surgical procedure developed by Galibert and Deramond in 1987, involves the injection of bone cement into a collapsed vertebral body. The main indications of vertebroplasty have been extended to painful osteoporotic compression fractures, vertebral myelomas, and metastases and so on. Several previous studies have evaluated the radiological changes in vertebral body height, kyp...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cement PE represents a potentially serious complication following vertebroplasty. To determine the frequency and extent of cement PE during percutaneous vertebroplasty, we performed a retrospective review of chest CT scans obtained in patients who had previously undergone ≥1 vertebroplasty procedure. MATERIALS AND METHODS After approval by our local institutional review...

BACKGROUND C2 vertebroplasty is more challenging than transpedicular percutaneous vertebroplasty in the thoracic and lumbar spine. OBJECTIVE We report an anterior ascending approach for C2 percutaneous vertebroplasty to avoid potential injury to vital structures surrounding the C2 vertebra. STUDY DESIGN A technique note with 5 consecutive cases. SETTING Neurosurgery department of a univer...

BACKGROUND Percutaneous vertebroplasty procedures are commonly used to treat vertebral fractures. These techniques may be associated with major complications. CASE REPORT We present here a case of a 64-year-old female patient with T9 and T10 acute osteoporotic fractures, treated previously with vertebroplasty for four levels of osteoporotic vertebral fractures. The patient was treated by T9-T10...